The “Blueprint for Reform: Free Speech on Campus” is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It underscores the essential role of free expression in higher education, advocating … Continue reading “Blueprint for Reform: Free Speech on Campus”
Blueprint for Reform: Institutional Neutrality is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining political and ideological neutrality in higher education institutions to … Continue reading “Blueprint for Reform: Institutional Neutrality”
Blueprint for Reform: Viewpoint Diversity is a policy guide for state legislators and university trustees. It underscores the critical role of viewpoint diversity in fostering academic freedom, open inquiry, and … Continue reading “Blueprint for Reform: Viewpoint Diversity”
UNC has announced its intent to reopen all 16 campuses this fall with in-person instruction. But the system will have to make significant changes before moving forward. Jenna A. Robinson … Continue reading “How UNC Can Save Money Post-COVID-19”
Editor’s Note: This is an abridged version of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar, a lecture he gave to Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1837. This is the third … Continue reading “Emerson’s Vision of the American Scholar”
As priorities shift in the minds of higher education leaders and students, it’s important to take stock of recent changes on the local and national levels. At the Martin Center, … Continue reading “Our Hopes for Higher Ed Reform in 2020”
Editor’s Note: This article by Randolph Bourne, a writer and public intellectual, was originally published as “The Idea of a University” in The Dial on November 22, 1917. This is the … Continue reading “The Idea of a University: When Trustees Turn a College into a Commodity”
Jenna A. Robinson, President Jacques Barzun’s magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, has been a revelation—of my own inadequate history education. As the title says, … Continue reading “What We’re Reading: Western Culture, Groupthink, and Queer Criminology”
Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from the 1910 introduction to The Harvard Classics by Charles W. Eliot, a long-serving president of Harvard and an advocate of a liberal arts … Continue reading “The 20th-Century Idea of a Cultivated Man”